Category Archives: Soup and Broth

When you cook any bean, I recommend cooking enough for two or three meals. Have a plan for using them so the family doesn’t think they are eating the same meal every evening. Great Northern white beans are a creamy, almost sweet bean that blends with so many flavors. You can be creative and work… Continue Reading

This post was last updated on September 14th, 2017 at 07:38 am Occasionally I will make a soup following the recipe very closely, or more correctly, I should say that I rarely follow a recipe closely. Reading through recipes gives inspiration. I’m sure you know what I mean. This inspiration comes from a recipe developed… Continue Reading

A turkey often sits center in a holiday meal and while the leftover white meat makes great turkey sandwiches and the dark meat is a great complement to casseroles and salads, many people discard the turkey carcass itself and miss their opportunity for a great soup. They also miss their chance to benefit from the… Continue Reading

This post was last updated on September 14th, 2017 at 07:43 am I love glorious cool days filled with outside projects. The air is exhilarating and the exercise invigorating. What can make me cranky on a day like this is to have to stop and cook. Surely you’ve also noticed the appetites that accompany such… Continue Reading

This post was last updated on January 15th, 2014 at 02:41 pm In 1997, Sunset Magazine ran an article on winter squash complete with a few recipes. I followed the recipe to the letter because of its unusual process. It was wonderfully easy and fun! The onion and garlic gets roasted in their skins, then… Continue Reading

This post was last updated on February 4th, 2014 at 09:30 am Curried dishes run the gamut from sweet to hot with sweet-hot somewhere on the continuum. Curry powders vary greatly as well. Find one you like and stick with it. Nothing is more disappointing than picking up a container from the grocery store shelf… Continue Reading

Always looking for new ways to prepare pumpkin and winter squash, I’m game for almost anything. This roasted pumpkin soup recipe from Moro East looked on the surface to be much like other pumpkin soups I’ve made except for the condiments that get added at serving time. This cookbook is so exceptional I decided to… Continue Reading

This post was last updated on July 2nd, 2014 at 07:30 am Since discovering the wisdom of consuming elderberry shots and elderberry tea to strengthen our immune systems, we are finding wild elderberries in places unnoticed –under our noses but unnoticed until now. Having this sort of bounty allows us to experiment a wee bit,… Continue Reading

I’m always on the lookout for extraordinary ways to enjoy ordinary food items. What is more ordinary than a potato? This adaptation of a soup from Colombia will totally change your image of what you know as potato soup. Ajiaco is a thin soup, verging on clear. The flavor comes from the broth and from… Continue Reading

This post was last updated on July 2nd, 2014 at 07:31 am In the spirit of using our abundant garden produce and foraging the beautiful wild greens around us, we are eating soup so loaded with leafy greens that it looks like extracted vegetable juice. This stuff is GREEN! It has been fun to figure… Continue Reading